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The American Boy Book

Edgar Allan Poe is the American boy, a child standing on the edge of mysteries. In 1819 two Americans arrive in London, and soon afterwards a bank collapses, a man is found dead and mutilated, a heiress flirts with her inferiors, and a schoolmaster struggles to understand what is happening.Read More

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    Interweaving real and fictional elements The American Boy is a major new literary historical crime novel in the tradition of An Instance of the Fingerpost and Possession. England 1819: Thomas Shield a new master at a school just outside London is tutor to a young American boy and the boy's sensitive best friend Charles Frant. Drawn to Frant's beautiful unhappy mother Thomas becomes caught up in her family's twisted intrigues. Then a brutal crime is committed with consequences that threaten to destroy Thomas and all that he has come to hold dear. Despite his efforts Shield is caught up in a deadly tangle of sex money murder and lies -- a tangle that grips him tighter even as he tries to escape from it. And what of the strange American child at the heart of these macabre events yet mysterious -- what is the secret of the boy named Edgar Allen Poe?

  • Foyles

    THE NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER AND AWARD-WINNING RICHARD & JUDY BOOK CLUB PICKAn atmospheric and deeply absorbing literary historical crime classic – featured in The Times ‘Top Ten Crime Novels of the Decade’.England 1819: Thomas Shield, a new master at a school just outside London, is tutor to a young American boy and the child’s sensitive best friend, Charles Frant. Helplessly drawn to Frant’s beautiful, unhappy mother, Thomas becomes entwined in their family’s affairs.When a brutal murder takes place in London’s seedy backstreets, it is not certain who either the victim or the killer is. But all clues seem to lead back to the Frant household, and Shield is tangled in a web of lies, money, sex and death that threatens to tear his new life apart.And what of the strange American boy at the heart of these macabre events – what is the dark secret of young Edgar Allan Poe?

  • BookDepository

    The American Boy : Paperback : HarperCollins Publishers : 9780007109609 : 0007109601 : 05 Jul 2004 : THE NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER AND AWARD-WINNING RICHARD & JUDY BOOK CLUB PICK An atmospheric and deeply absorbing literary historical crime classic - featured in The Times 'Top Ten Crime Novels of the Decade'.

  • 0007109601
  • 9780007109609
  • Andrew Taylor
  • 5 July 2004
  • Harper Perennial
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 512
  • New Ed
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